Hey all as you guys know, i bought this hx about 9 months ago from an elderly lady who absolutely took immaculate care of the car. NO rust at all for a 10 year old car. Anyway, im the second owner and as soon as i got her, i knew immediatley that there were some things that needed to be changed.
1. Headlight visiblity
2. Ride of the car
3. Brake power of the car (stock was fine though)
4. Power
5. Controle and stability
6. Needed a little bling (in my eyes however)

so the first couple upgrades were:
HID's
CF power chamber intake
GSR F/R disc brakes
CTR front strut bar/ ASR brace w/ 22mm ctr sway bar and OEM endlinks
Koni Yellow and ground controles.
OEM sir lip w/ oem window visor. *BLING*

*Befor pics*










I promised myself no more upgrades at this point since i was getting really good handling, braking power and gas milage already. But....

A couple months went by and it was time for a tune up. So i purchased a b18c1 w/ ctr cams from a friend instead. Then i slapped the JDM ITR headers, SK2 IM on aswell as OEM spec ITR pistons.


Then as the car was coming together i decided i needed a new lip so i puchased a brand new OEM CTR front lip from heeltoeauto.com, and an OEM CTR grille from N1 (thanks guys)
(pic of the lip, grille not pictured still needs to be painted)

Took a look at my car and decided to get her some new shoes to complement the the heart. So i got a set of 15x7 +45 Enkei's RPF1's.


Since the exterior was complete, i hopped in the **** pit and took a look and made a decision. I needed new seats and i wouldn't be a bad idea to upgrade the steering wheel. So i opted for the SRS CTR steering wheel and Gsr (grey) seats.


Last thing i did was adding a Cusco 40mm rear strut bar in the trunk.

Instead of cutting the hole in the carpet i just made two little holes to mount it on.


Impression. Its a huge diffence in power and throttle response. Really loved how everything turned out and to me, i think everything flows well and each part complimented each other very well. With the new motor, i can really push the car and really test the the sway bar and suspension. The seats really holds me in and the steering wheel really does feel a lot better than the stock wheel. I noticed more grip with the newer tire/wheel combo and now i can really hear when vtec kicks in.
I don't plan on upgrading the motor at all, everything is fine the way it is. I do miss the 39-40 mpg though. Hope you guys approve. also, thanks to all those that helped in any way.





Modified by gfunkmos37 at 3:53 PM 10/7/2008

 

Damn. I was expecting a list of "I want to do this stuff..." rather than the outcome.

 

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Very good start man. Keep it up.

 

Like the steering wheel where'd ya order it from? sorry if it seems im trying to steal the thread but know of any good sites to order from?

 

damn ya'll cali ***** are ballin. It would have took me like 2 years to get all that money here and I'm hustlin like hell!

 

very nice. now lets keep her under you possession and not some *******

 

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get some security man

 

nice

 

damn thats nice

 

clean car!!!!!

 

I'm not gonna lie, I really like what you did with your car...

 

Nice man. Great first Civic lol.

 

Not bad. Really like the car.

 

what happened to the hx wheels?
you dont want it. should send it to me.

 

Wow, very nice! Good job with her

 

Beautiful car.

 

Very good looking car man, I am a huge fan of the Enkei RPF1's.

 

thts a bad *** starter car.. somethin like my own

 

very nice start man! keep it up.

 

Might I make a suggestion, GSR cluster swap? I did it in my EK and I absolutely love it. I did mine because I didn't have a tach but I think it looks a lot better.

 

looks good!! i like the oem lip though..still got it??

 

sk8....

 

straight

 

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Already taken care of . Thanks for all the comments everyone. I just got some fogs and lca's and as soon as i get them on, ill update with some more pics. In the process of doing a wire tuck but its not quite there yet. Not going to be to extreme though, just a little engine bay clean up. Just been really busy with school and other priorities. Buts its coming along

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I keep all of my old parts until the car is gone. Its in storage right now.

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Yup, skating is what i do.

 

it looks really good man!! good job